Nelson Channel

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Nelson Channel
The Nelson Channel between Candlemas Island (right) and Vindication Island (left)
The Nelson Channel between Candlemas Island (right) and Vindication Island (left)
Connects waters South Atlantic
with water South Atlantic
Separates land mass Candlemas Island
of land mass Vindication Island
Data
Geographical location 57 ° 5 '59 "  S , 26 ° 46' 4"  W Coordinates: 57 ° 5 '59 "  S , 26 ° 46' 4"  W.
Nelson Channel (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Nelson Channel

The Nelson Channel is a navigable strait in the South Sandwich Islands archipelago . It runs between Candlemas Island in the east and Vindication Island in the west.

The British navigator James Cook , discoverer of the South Sandwich Islands, mapped the strait in 1775. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out further mapping in 1930 and named it Nelson Strait . It is named after Lieutenant Andrew Laidlaw Nelson (1904-1958), first officer and navigator of Discovery II for this mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee adapted this name in 1955 to avoid confusion with Nelson Strait in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands.

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